Senior Victorian Liberals say the party is being deprived of good candidates and businesses should allow their employers to be politically active.
Senior Victorian Liberals have called on businesses to loosen rules for staff to engage in politics while the diminished party pushes to get quality candidates and well-credentialed women into its ranks.
“A strong democracy requires citizen engagement in the political process, and your employment should not be a barrier to that,” Hume said. “Seeking to represent your community in parliament is an honourable pursuit, a civic duty much like serving on a jury or volunteering.” “I believe really strongly that politics is a form of public service, a civic service, and you should do it when you can make a difference, and when your contribution might be particularly useful. I don’t think people should get into politics with the idea that they will be there for their career, for the duration of their career.
“Australians should not feel like they are impacting their career by putting their hand up to run as a candidate. That’s not only because of our constitutionally protected right to political communication, but because it deprives our system of political candidates with genuine private sector experience, which is so often what business groups are calling for,” Hume said.
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